PICTURES: Key Ingredient Market is doing "grate"

Madeleine Cook / The Morning Call

(L-R) President Matthew Pivnick, Assistant Plant Manger Chase Sakitis, and Director of Operations Christine Woodarek manage the production of their cheese spreads. Key Ingredient Market, a small business located in East Allen Township, is seeking to expand its production of gourmet cheese spreads after the spreads garnered culinary recognition and begun selling nationally at Whole Foods and regionally at Wegmans.

Christine Woodarek scoops cheese into a vat before the cheese spread is made in the plant in East Allen Township on June 12, 2018 — making the spreads is done with a team of just three. Key Ingredient Market, a small business located in East Allen Township, is seeking to expand its production of gourmet cheese spreads after the spreads garnered culinary recognition and begun selling nationally at Whole Foods and regionally at Wegmans.

Key Ingredient Market, a small business located in East Allen Township is expanding its production of gourmet cheese spreads after the spreads garnered culinary recognition and begun selling nationally at Whole Foods and regionally at Wegmans.